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• We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.

  Joseph Campbell

  Animal, Sea, Water

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.40, Anchor

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• There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

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  Reality, Knowing Who You Are, Quotation Marks

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• We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.

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  Fear, Garden, Thinking

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.134, Anchor

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• Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.

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  Inspirational, Writing, Years

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• What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

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  Inspirational, Life, Unique

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the ninth century B.C. All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other.

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  Dream, Meditation, Heaven

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• One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit. We re interested in the news of the day and the problems of the hour.

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  News, Literature, Today

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.1, Anchor

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• Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

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  Following Your Own Path, Steps, Bliss

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• For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.

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  Inspirational, Hero Journey, Self

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.178, New World Library

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• Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.

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  Mythology, Misinterpreted, Defined

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• All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.

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  Beautiful, Views, Broken

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• Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

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  Inspirational, Heart, Trying

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.134, New World Library

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• Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

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  Character, Goes On, Evoke

  TV Mini-Series "The Power of Myth" ("Episode 1", Chapter 12), 1988.

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• When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.

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  Ideas, Important, Culture

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• The best we can do is lean towards the light.

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  Light, Can Do

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.245, Anchor

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• If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

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  Real, Trials, Losing

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• When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.

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  Inspiring, Success, Hero

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• The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or insanity: for the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspected Aladdin caves.

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  Dream, Dwelling, Insanity

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.5, New World Library

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• Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.

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  Hero, Focus, Monsters

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.156, Anchor

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• In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

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  Sacrifice, Sacrificing Yourself, Persons

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• The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

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  Hero, Past, Men

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.14, New World Library

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• The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world.

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  Dream, Views, Heaven

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2003). “Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal”, p.70, New World Library

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• Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

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  Regret, War, Ignorance

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.101, New World Library

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• The importance of the End of time is as ... a psychological event ... When you have seen the radiance of eternity through all the forms of time ... and it is the function of art to make that visible to you ... then you have really have ended life in the world as it is lived by those who only think only in the historical, concretizing terms. This is the function of mythology.

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  Art, Thinking, Historical

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• It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.

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  Telescopes, Hiding, Microscopes

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.334, New World Library

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